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by ponsin 6y ago
> The assertion that opposite-sex attraction is "normal" and that same-sex attraction is abnormal is not supported by science. I don't know what "science" you are referencing but according to the NY times [0] 0.0
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by ponsin 6y ago
I'm not a psychologist but from what I understand some people who have urges for young people just like some people have urges for people of the same gender. Obviously I have no problem if someone acts upon their urges towards people o
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by ponsin 6y ago
When I read "defund the police" I assume that they mean what they are saying. What do you think is meant by the phrase "defund planned Parenthood"?
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by ponsin 6y ago
how is that different than in c/c++ simply adding asserts at the start and end of functions?
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by ponsin 6y ago
The problem with UBI trials is that they cost a lot of money to be remotely effective. That is because for it to be somewhat meaningful the amount has to be high, it has to involve a lot of people, and it has to last a long time. I was wond
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by ponsin 6y ago
Because you don't know what to expect from people with certain mental issues. If I see someone pacing outside my office while screaming to the devil and hitting his head, I will try to avoid him. Sure, maybe he will continue to have a
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by ponsin 6y ago
tl;dr he was in prison several times before for other crimes > Bryant, 62, received the life sentence under Louisiana’s habitual offender law, which allows a person’s sentence to increase based on their criminal history.
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by ponsin 6y ago
correct. society considers (IMO correctly) violent crimes much worse than non-violent crimes.
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by ponsin 6y ago
One of the problems with wireless charging is that I typically get a cheap $5 "rugged" case from eBay that lets me drop my phone with harm only potentially happening to my disposable case. unfortunately, those cases block wireless
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by ponsin 6y ago
how is Germany's solution any different than giving unemployment benefits for furloughed employees? Regarding the Fed, they _could_ just print gobs of money, and probably nothing bad will happen in the near future. But if you want exam
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by ponsin 6y ago
1. I'm pretty sure that states can decide to not evict tenants (thereby severely hurting landlords who possibly have multiple mortgages to cover the rentals. 2. Did any other country uniformly cancel all rent?
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by ponsin 6y ago
the feds provided large quantities of ventilators and are funding multiple vaccine research. What else should they do? Every state has enough power to mandate mask wearing, quarantine, school closings without federal intervention
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by ponsin 6y ago
You may not be able to convince someone who is interested in philosophy to study engineering (although I personally know several people, myself included, who are interested in both philosophy and engineering) but if they lack the funding to
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by ponsin 6y ago
> By continuing, you [...] affirm you're at least 16 years old what is on that website, porn?
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by ponsin 6y ago
> And you believe we should not treat minors different than Adults? Yes
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by ponsin 6y ago
Added source of the case to the OP. And yes, retribution is designed to prevent vigilantism. As that is psychology I can't really give a better source than [0]. Obviously retribution is not meant to go by itself, but along with rehabil
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by ponsin 6y ago
Retribution is needed to prevent vigilante justice and to cause fear to potential criminals. Remember the story of the drunk driver who killed several people in a crash [0]? He was "punished" by going to a club med like rehab faci
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by ponsin 6y ago
source https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_c-E_i8Q5G0 . The video is just as horrifying as the George Floyd video
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by ponsin 6y ago
Jews don't define themselves based on how antisemites defined them.
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by ponsin 6y ago
sure, in cities with a large non-religious population like Tel Aviv or a large Arab population like Haifa
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by ponsin 6y ago
As an improvement I would recommend simply showing a graph of, say, the past 5 years death rate, adjusted for population. I'm not sure how to understand expected deaths (who expected it?). What I want to know is how this year's de
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by ponsin 6y ago
That gives me an idea. A privacy oriented NGO could create an address and agree to publicly upload all letters received and allow the users to read the mail anonymously.
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by ponsin 6y ago
> Firstly, the biggest by far has been from a certain large games company that has consistently blocked us from being able to trademark Riot or even Riot.im Using that logic would leave us to believe that they are changing the name &quot
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by ponsin 6y ago
That sounds sort of like the reverse-halo effect fallacy. Believe it or not terrible people don't necessarily do terrible things every time they do somethings. For example, Fidel Castro caused Cuba to have one of the highest literacy r
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by ponsin 6y ago
Using that logic a similarly valid headline would be "iPhone (and Samsung and Sony phone) owners using Uighur Muslim forced labour in factories", which while probably true, isn't that surprising.
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by ponsin 6y ago
> During the violence that began around City Hall following peaceful protests, Blumenthal allegedly set fire to both vehicles. I love how the msm feels the need to specify that the protests that resulted in Police cars bring burned, stor
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by ponsin 6y ago
I don't know how old you are but when it happened I was more interested in watching the cool explosions on TV. In fact, there are some people here who probably weren't even alive when it happened. I'm not saying that it is su
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by ponsin 6y ago
While this is nothing "secret" or new (originally released on 2010) it is interesting to see how some people reacted at first. Some of the messages right after the first attack talk about a plane crash or fire at the Pentagon rath
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by ponsin 6y ago
They said/say not to wear facemask meant for health care workers [0] presumably so that there are more for the healthcare workers. 0 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
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by ponsin 6y ago
That sounds like the "Hitler liked dogs" argument. Just because that police chief sounds like a bad person from the quote doesn't mean that everything he said was bad. In fact, I think many Americans would be fine with the us

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